They do! I went back into my old paper on the Anne series and found the relevant footnote: "Waterson and Rubio point out that Anne's first successful literary work is first written after Anne breaks a “patterned platter,” highlighting the importance of her break with conventional form (qtd in Wiggins 236)." It happens in Anne of Ingleside-- she takes a sketch she wrote in Anne's House of Dream's that has no plot (and that she believes therefore has no chance of being published), rewrites it, submits it, and it becomes her first acceptance!

WHAT WE DO

NaPoWriMo was founded in 2003, when poet Maureen Thorson decided to take up the challenge (modeled after NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), and challenged other poets to join her. Since then, the number of participants has gotten larger every year, and many writers’ organizations, local, national and even international, organize NaPoWriMo activities.